Articles by Phil Bonzon, MMR

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 15, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. This meeting features a swap meet and videos on model and prototype railroading. Dig out your surplus equipment, clean in up, and...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 20, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. This meeting is a "Bring it and Brag" session. Bring an interesting model or diorama that you built and give a brief presentation ...

Our annual Kitbash Contest kit will be distributed, along with the contest instructions, at the Gateway Division NMRA monthly meeting on Monday, July 21, 2014 at Trinity Church. The kit is an ideal structure kit for kitbashing and is available in HO and N scales....

The “Grandt Line Reese Street Row House” kit was the starting point for the 2013 kitbashing contest. The only restriction placed on the contest model was that the base could not be more than one square foot in area. Here are photos of all the models entered in the contest, and the con...

The NMRA Mid-Continent Regional convention was hosted by the Gateway Division NMRA on May 30 through June 3, 2012. The event featured clinics, layout and prototype tours, model contests, operating sessions, a train show, and a banquet at the Museum of Transportation....

In 1946, four class P-7 Pacifics were streamlined at the B&O Mt. Claire shops for service as P-7d’s on the Cincinnatian train operating between Baltimore and Cincinnati. A brass model has been imported, but since it is beyond my engine budget I choose to build one. This article chroni...